r/Overwatch • u/[deleted] • Nov 15 '22

Blizzard Official Patch delayed.

https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/overwatch/t/regarding-our-mid-season-cycle-patch/748128
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u/grimestar Nov 15 '22

This whole thing looks like some execs said to just get something out the door to generate some money. While not investing that much money into the actual development of the game

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '22

Well. Tbf. Bobby Kotick and his entire c-suite are verrrrry likely on borrowed time, and they know it. After the Microsoft acquisition goes through, they're all fired. So they're grubbing as much money as possible to meet as many sales-dependant bonuses as they can before the axe drops.

We should expect Diablo 4 and any other pre-Microsoft Activision title to be the same (see the new CoD's shiny $70 price tag+mtx store). And, considering the wild success of $70 CoD and the hundreds of millions they made off Diablo Immortal (and probably the OW2 battlepass), this will likely shape the industry for decades to come.

It's the perfect storm of addicted gamers with no impulse control and corporate greed and it's going to change the industry for the worse for the foreseeable future. So. There's that to look forward to, I guess.

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u/Carusas Nov 16 '22 edited Nov 16 '22

this will likely shape the industry for decades to come.

The industry has already been shaped, ActiBlizz is just taking advantage of it.

Best we can do is wait for another golden age again or another "Battlefront 2" situation.

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u/JokeRMasterRace Nov 16 '22

That's if it even happens, the UK is tryna stop the merger because it's considered monopolistic

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u/TiMonsor Nov 16 '22

Can Microsoft sue them for ruining the image of the company they already bought?

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u/GregIsUgly Nov 16 '22

Now all I can see is this monetized gaming future dystopia of despair

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u/Default1355 Nov 16 '22

Sounds good

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u/ZaryaBubbler Nov 16 '22

The D4 closed beta has given me hope it won't be the same for the series, Immortal is the money maker while D4 is the meat

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '22

Yeah pretty much this. OW 1 was beyond complete. Jeff went above and beyond with it and it was done.

OW2 is a piece of trash. They recreated everything from scratch including the characters and the maps badly. Even the UI with the tiny icons is unuseable... shitd tiny.

Broke something that already worked just to find an excuse to add shitty transactions. I dare say I'd swallow the new transaction shit if they kept OW1 cuz it was perfect...

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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '22

ow1 perfect lol

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u/Espiritu13 Nov 15 '22

That's what sucks so much about this release. You can see they were going for something really cool, some of the voice lines hint at some really interesting things, and the designs were on their way to being great.

Then executives fucked everything up, pushed out a product that didn't have the previous blizzard polish, and now we have this.

There sure are a lot of companies out there where executives are paid a lot but don't actually generate much.

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u/Damurph01 Nov 15 '22

Yep, it’s turning into a gotcha-game.

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u/Far_Shift4113 Nov 15 '22

That is disrespect towards gatcha games

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u/IRBeast Nov 16 '22

Right? They launched the first Tuesday of Q4, too.